[Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> We are trying to figure out a way to bundle the mozplugger plugin[1]
>> in Browse, so that PDF files can be viewed from within Browse itself.
>> Does anyone know how this can be done. Apart from the mozplugger
>> plugin itself, we need to have the m4 binary to help mozplugger parse
>> its config file, as well as the application which _actually_ renders
>> the PDF.
>> Normally we can modify the OS image, but it would be easier for us to
>> include the entire thing in Browse and make a new Browse bundle.
>> Any thoughts/ideas/comments ?
>
> What are the binaries, libraries and other resources that are needed
> by the evince plugin and aren't available on the 8.2.0 image?
>


We won't use the evince plugin (as it does not have Journal support).
I have a simple python PDF viewer which takes care of rendering the
PDF. Everything that needs to be installed on the XO are at:
http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/

-sdg-




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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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